With all the money we save by owning small boats
Just take the extra cash and eat out at the local eatries we find along our routes
To heck with cooking
Ice ;D
LOL- RIIIIIIIIIIIIIght. ;) Try finding someplace where you can "just eat out" in the Marquessas or Dry Tortugas, down off the Keys.
Or anywhere along the Texas Bays here where we sail. Ain't no such places around.
Besides- sure is nice to be, as we were earlier this year- rocking along on a broad reach heading out into Mississippi Sound from the La ICW. Laura went below and was busy in the cabin. A while later she handed me up a plate of pancakes, with bacon on the side. Well, it really wasn't bacon- what it was was thinly sliced Spam, fried like bacon.
But we were some 2 hours out from anchor up when she did it, making about 4 knots toward that nights intended anchorage.
Can't do that by eating out ;D ;D
geuss we could get a girlfriend in every port...then have them cook for us when get to the closest doc...lololol
But..Isnt everyones favorite song "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
We did the intracoatal a few years ago and lived on board in New Bern NC for 5 years
Nothin like hushpuppies pork barbecue, crayfish, all you can eat blueclaws in Maryland, all you can eat shrimp in Charleston,bluefish/tuna in NJ
;D
kewl which place in New Bern were staked out at?
Lived aboard a Tartan 30 at the Sheratom Marina
Sheraton Marina
I gotta use spell checker
the average person can actually survive 20-30 days with out food.(those that need to loose half there body mass can probably go longer).However no one can survive more than 10 days with out water. (Thats according to a book called Sea Survival)It was 34 days from oahu to monterrey with starcrest 2.there were no local eateries along the way to stop off at.....so this is not feasable for the long distance transoceanic voyager.it was then several hundred miles of motoring along what I consider to be a harsh and inhospitable coastline with few harbors along the way.I did stop at several however.Morro Bay (that inlet can be nasty)SantaBarbara (they have a nice little fishermans wharf..and I graduated from their city college in 1988)Ventura Harbor (you cant live there without a third reich style permit) Oxnard(they dont like that name they prefer channel Islands)and finally back home to Marina Del Rey (where I will admit to being the source of a Bay Watch episode).this boat I have now I purchased 5 miles from launch pad 34b at cape canaveral.The intercoastal waterway has a multitude of marinas and local eateries along the way.so for coastwise cruising this is quite feasable and I have infact been doing so for the last 5 years and let me tell you it is quite enjoyable.
Ice - Why even leave the boat? Just have the food delivered... ;D
Eric - Hilarious descriptions of those Cali ports. Did you get to make out with Pamela Anderson? ;D
I love cooking on the boat. Something about firing up the grill, having a glass of wine and cooking while the sunsets. If you let everyone get hungry, give them a few glasses of wine, they will think that whatever you cook is the best they ever had.
I was doing a little weeklong trip with some friends. We were headed down the ICW....boring... all motor. I went below and made biscuits, fried potatoes, bacon, eggs and cooked apples. I made little breakfast plates and put them in Walmart bags. I radioed the other boat, told them to come alongside with their boat hook extended. We passed breakfast platters off and got the day started off right.
Nothing like a good hot meal on the water.
I use a toaster oven if I am at dockside. I have a 2 burner origo alcohol stove and a propane grill on the stern that I have figured out how to make biscuits on. YUMMMMM
Quote from: Iceman on January 07, 2006, 06:20:01 PM
Sheraton Marina
I gotta use spell checker
Iceman, I wish I knew you were out there, I used to go that way all the time.
what do yall think about cooking some of the meals at home just like you would as if you were out in the middle of a cruise. that way you'll know what works out and what you would not likely to eat after its done.
Capnk
I pizza place in New Bern did deliver to the boat
and the Sheraton had specials at that time for us liveaboards
I used to work at Barbour Boatworks which is now a parking lot for thr Tryon Palace and the wife worked at the Chelsea Restaurant..I was head electrician and she was a waitress
Tartan was named EASY RIDER
We are planning a return with the Voyager in the near future ;D
Capnk
I almost forgot
We lived aboard the Tartan @ Block Island Rhode Island for 4 months with the Tartan 30
Boats actually delivered bread, ice, and pumped out the holding tanks
;D
Ice,
Sail boaters are supposed to be cheap..... we have a reputation to uphold. ;D
hi Iceman, I remember Barbour Boatworks. I think I still have their card in my treasure case.
at one time they had a tug boat out there, that I was looking at. it was a hull in need of almost everything else. it was a black hull, and red belly, white cabin, and black cabin top.
I hated to see the old B&B leave. ofcourse at the time I was sailing in a sunfish ans cruising the coastal places in that. by time I got me a real boat they were gone.
Bill
Allways something good to eat here in Puget Sound. Fresh Salmon, crab, shrimp. calamari, and lots of octopus, clams or various sorts.
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Quote from: Jack Tar on January 10, 2006, 12:01:05 AM
Allways something good to eat here in Puget Sound. Fresh Salmon, crab, shrimp. calamari, and lots of octopus, clams or various sorts.
is that empty plate in the picture for moi??? That sure looks like some good food!!
Quote from: Jack Tar on January 10, 2006, 12:01:05 AM
Allways something good to eat here in Puget Sound. Fresh Salmon, crab, shrimp. calamari, and lots of octopus, clams or various sorts.
I could happily exist on that sort of fare! Unfortunately, my SO is not fond of shellfish. :o Although he HAS learned an appreciation for Cream of Crab Soup since moving here to Maryland. Give me time and I'll have him picking crabs in no time! ;D
I am glad to see that us sailfar people will not die of starvation
Im happy this thread got us all thinking about great food
Wonder what our fellow cruisers in the mid west/ great lakes might dine on..is there such a thing as freshwater lobster :P
Great Lakes checking in here. Lots of fresh water fish - might think twice about eating some of them. I'm not a fisherman, but having sailed round the clock before there sure are a lot of fishermen around here. Not much in the way of good shellfish. sigh. Give me the west coast for that - or Maryland for the crab. Always stop in at Buddy's whenever I hit Annapolis, for my fill of crab. Mostly, we either buy it at the grocery store and BBQ or cook onboard or all too often we eat out. I know I'd have a much larger boat if I didn't eat out so often. :) On Lake Ontario there is always a restaurant close by.
Cheers!
John
Hi John, I agree, there is always a place to eat within walking distance for were we sail on St. Clair, Huron, and Erie. I do like a mess-a-perch once in a while though. Cheers.
Quote from: CharlieJ on January 07, 2006, 03:09:22 PM
LOL- RIIIIIIIIIIIIIght. ;) Try finding someplace where you can "just eat out" in the Marquessas or Dry Tortugas, down off the Keys.
Or anywhere along the Texas Bays here where we sail. Ain't no such places around.
Besides- sure is nice to be, as we were earlier this year- rocking along on a broad reach heading out into Mississippi Sound from the La ICW. Laura went below and was busy in the cabin. A while later she handed me up a plate of pancakes, with bacon on the side. Well, it really wasn't bacon- what it was was thinly sliced Spam, fried like bacon.
But we were some 2 hours out from anchor up when she did it, making about 4 knots toward that nights intended anchorage.
Can't do that by eating out ;D ;D
Hey Charlie;
You and Laura need to come up to Aransas, corpus bay. Lots of places to eat.
I know laura was just there!
I'm with you. I have never figured out the appeal of cooking on a boat. IT"S HOT and cooking doesn't help one bit. Now IF I was in NE or Alaska, maybe the heat from the stove/oven would be a welcome affect, but not in Texas, except maybe Jan/Feb.
IF I can't cook it on the grill, we'll have to eat it raw or starve!
well- I guess the point is we almost never eat out anyway- even at home- MUCH prefer cooking aboard and eating our own food.
Usually when we are cruising, we'll have dinner cooked and ready when we anchor and then get the galley cleaned up before dark. We both hate eating after dark on the boat and detest doing the dishes under artificial lights, so getting them all finished before dark solves that. Besides, if you do the cooking while underway, there is less heat inside the boat.
And if it's THAT hot, then we can move the stove out into the cockpit.
And the stove is ALWAYS lit off in the mornings for coffee- cannot begin the day without ;D
Oh- and yes, Laura was down there- spend two nights anchored in Shamrock Cove, which she says is nice but ISN'T a cove anymore- she sailed right thru it before she realized, then turned back and went back in to anchor ;) She's anchored in Matagorda Bay right now- waiting for this "10% chance of rain" that's been deluging in buckets full since 0700, to go away. She didn't want to get nailed on Matagorda bay , single hand, in a thunderstorm. NWS sure missed the poop outta the forecast today!!!
Quote from: CharlieJ on September 18, 2007, 05:55:30 PM
well- I guess the point is we almost never eat out anyway- even at home- MUCH prefer cooking aboard and eating our own food.
Usually when we are cruising, we'll have dinner cooked and ready when we anchor and then get the galley cleaned up before dark. We both hate eating after dark on the boat and detest doing the dishes under artificial lights, so getting them all finished before dark solves that. Besides, if you do the cooking while underway, there is less heat inside the boat.
And if it's THAT hot, then we can move the stove out into the cockpit.
And the stove is ALWAYS lit off in the mornings for coffee- cannot begin the day without ;D
Oh- and yes, Laura was down there- spend two nights anchored in Shamrock Cove, which she says is nice but ISN'T a cove anymore- she sailed right thru it before she realized, then turned back and went back in to anchor ;) She's anchored in Matagorda Bay right now- waiting for this "10% chance of rain" that's been deluging in buckets full since 0700, to go away. She didn't want to get nailed on Matagorda bay , single hand, in a thunderstorm. NWS sure missed the poop outta the forecast today!!!
I admire your industry. Heating water for the morning coffee is about our only 'have to' for the stove.
We really like sandwiches!! Especially the 'cleanup' afterwards. When I was single I would sometimes eat a sandwich for EVERY meal for weeks! Granted they were made with very good, very very thinly sliced meats and cheeses, but still only a sandwich. Every now and then I'd throw in a little 'Top Raman'. As you can see I look at eating as a necessary evil.
Good to hear Laura's back safe and sound.
:D One of our favorite meals aboard is Albacore steaks, with mashed potatoes and aparagus shoots. With a glass of wine of course :D
Now the Albacore steaks come packaged in a foil pack, from Bumble Bee I believe- we get them at our local grocery- no refrigeration- heat the steaks in a pan with a bit of butter- great. They come in several seasonings, including Mesquite and Lemon Pepper, which we like.
The mashed potatos are instant. Idahoan Brand to be precise- boil a couple cups of water, dump the potatoes in and stir.. Best instant potatoes we've found.
The asparagus requires opening a can and the wine requires pulling a cork.
Another of our favorites is the packaged noodles, from Lipton. They come in various flavorings also. We cook them, then open a can of chicken and dump that in- one pot, good meal, easy to wash up.
Laura will occasionally cook extra and have that for lunch the next day as a Greek Salad- some sort of pasta, artichoke hearts, Parmesan Cheese, and several other things which I forget at the moment, It's a cold salad but makes a great lunch while under way- served with crackers and iced tea of course.
Or lunch may be a cold plate- cheese, sliced apples, Vienna Sausages, crackers
Breakfasts are often oatmeal, cooked in boiling water, but not unusual for us to have pancakes with thin sliced spam fried crisp. Then the left over spam is used for sandwiches at lunch and if any still remains, cut up into some canned limas for dinner- or cooked in with some boiled potatoes.
Or she just might make biscuits in the pressure cooker :D
Notice - none of this requires refrigeration and we have figured how much to cook so we have no leftovers. If we DO happen to have a bit left, the fish eat well. ;)
I also carry a Wok aboard so we can do shrimp fried rice etc, as the ingredieants become available.
And Laura will often bake a cake or something like that in the pressure cooker for desert.
So it isn't all that difficult. We like to eat well aboard. In fact, Laura claims we eat better on the boat than we do at home. which isn't necessarily true- tonight I fixed broiled chicken breasts nicely seasoned with Tony Catchere's, wild rice and early peas. That was Laura's welcome home dinner. She got in too late last night, so I fixed it tonight.
I will admit the boat does NOT leave the slip without a large jar of peanut butter aboard. ;D Crunchy of course!!!
I'm not a big fan of eating out, weather landbound or underway. Diff'rent strokes, and all that....
I don't do a lot of eating out , it's nice once in a while, but I like to cook. I do 90% of it with this 8qt Nesco electric oven which is about as versatile as it gets, slo cook, roast, bake, non stick, cleans up w no fuss. When I bought the boat the 40yr old alcohol stove was corroded solid, and the Nesco was so easy to use, I never replaced it. Anything the Nesco doesn't handle is strictly the province of the BBQ or the coffeemaker.
Once in a while I'll splurge on pizza, and Pizza Hut brings it right to the boat. There's also a workers' breakfast/lunch place, a seafood restaurant, and a real nice little Italian place in walking distance.
Fishing here is pretty good, and one young man on the dock works on a little shrimp boat, when he gets a lot of fish they can't sell, we have a standing agreement, he catches, I clean, other people on the dock have to bring the side dishes and the beer. I is a fish-cleanin-machine...lol
Where exactly are you in Jville? I lived there 20 years, built my trimaran on Johnson Island, under the high bridge across the ICW on Atlantic Blvd. That island USED to be Pelican Creek Boatyard- a do it yourself yard. We had 11 boats under construction there at one time- all amateur.
Used to keep a boat down in Mandarin, at the old Mandarin Marina- we sailed on Old Bull Bay. Taht was back inthe early 70s.
An iddy biddy little marina on the Trout River not far from Main Street. Not the ritzy section by any means.
Coincidence...I actually tried to find a boat in TX when I bought the Hunter summer of '06, because I wanted to live in the Port Lavaca Marina...heard it was a great marina, lo rates from another message board. Didn't work out, seemed my TX options in my price range all decided not to sell or had skeletons in the closet. I had some great 'TLC' deals in Florida, a state I knew, and got a fixer upper that was languishing ignored, neglected, crying her portlights out in a one dock liveaboard marina. So, here I is. I was determined to get on the water NOW, another Midwestern winter was too bitter to contemplate.
Still lots of work to do before I attempt any long distance misadventures, but you all might see me aground outside the Lavaca marina entrance one of these days...
The person who posted about Port Lavaca on that board years ago claimed you have a Texas bbq every Saturday nite...is it true? (My number #2 reason for wanting to live there...lol)
lol- well- last night we had ham and trimmings instead of barbeque. And it isn't EVERY saturday night- it's every staurday night that somebody wants to get together. So it's MOST saturdays- or wednesdays, or sunday afternoon. ;D
Laura and I took the mast down on Tehani this morning for her to refinsish it and we had left over ham, potato salad and cold cantelope chunks for supper this evening. And of course a Shiner Bock.
Currently the marina is down to half capacity- the city just took out ALL of "B" dock except the pilings- all new docks going in sometime later this year. But currently the rates are $3 per foot, with electricity and live aboard extra.
I'm very familiar with the marinas on Trout River- or used to be anyway. Had a buddy who kept his Searunner 34 over there.
I KNEW there was a glitch...I had daydreams of a land of milk and honey and BBQ ribs...lol
Ham and potato salad sound pretty good tho...I'm getting hungrier by the minute...cupboard is bare and have to make a run to the store
BTW I found that original SailNet post that introduced me to Port Lavaca
http://www.sailnet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10839&page=2 (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10839&page=2)
If I ever visit Texas you can blame THEM...lol